Elizabeth Carter

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Standard Name: Carter, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Carter
Nickname: Mrs Carter
Used Form: A Lady
EC was renowned during a long span of the later eighteenth century as a scholar and translator from several languages and the most seriously learned among the Bluestockings. Her English version of Epictetus was still current into the twentieth century. She was also a poet and a delightful letter-writer.
Portrait of Elizabeth Carter as Minerva, the Greek goddess of wisdom, by John Fayram in probably the late 1730s. She wears gilded metal armour over a white loose shirt and under a blue sash, and a helmet with feathery plume. She is holding in one hand a round shield, in the other a book bound in red, with gilt decoration, which (as Edward Cave revealed in writing her praise) is a copy of Plato. National Portrait Gallery.

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Literary responses Jane Squire
Elizabeth Carter wrestled with this book, driving herself half mad to find out the meaning of it and telling Catherine Talbot she was enraged at her own stupidity. Pope Benedict XIV , to whom a...
Textual Production Mariana Starke
Her preface says the translation was first suggested to her by the dowager Lady Spencer (mother of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ), whom she met in Italy; Lady Spencer also persuaded to her to publish...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lady Louisa Stuart
LLS 's correspondence during the years 1827-39, when she was composing her Introductory Anecdotes on her grandmother, throws much light on attitudes to female authorship. Selections includes her acute, even satirical, comment on the Bluestockings...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Elizabeth Carter published CT 's posthumous Works.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Cultural formation Catherine Talbot
Her friendship with Elizabeth Carter has been interpreted as lesbian, though at least two (unfulfilled) heterosexual relationships are also well documented.
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Talbot
Whatever the nature of CT 's involvement with Elizabeth Carter , she was involved too in love-feelings for a man at about the same time that the two women first met. He is unidentified, and...
Travel Catherine Talbot
From this point on CT spent part of her time at Canterbury. She often stayed at Percy Lodge (near Iver in Buckinghamshire) with the Duchess of Somerset (formerly Lady Hertford) , and in 1760...
death Catherine Talbot
Elizabeth Carter was given more information by the doctor in this last illness than were either CT herself or her mother (who had nursed her daughter through many illnesses). Carter was with Talbot till about...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT carefully kept her green book full of manuscript essays, meditations, poems, dialogues, allegories and prose pastorals, in what she called her considering drawer. Her friend Elizabeth Carter urged her to publish, but without...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT was, like most of her contemporaries, an assiduous and entertaining correspondent. Letters that she wrote to Jemima Campbell (later Lady Grey) and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory) were copied and circulated by Thomas Birch
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley , it seems that CT wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
117
She, or more probably Elizabeth Carter acting after her...
Friends, Associates Catherine Talbot
CT first met Elizabeth Carter , after hearing her praises sung by the scientist Thomas Wright .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
68
Travel Catherine Talbot
CT , with Archbishop Secker and the usual family party, visited Canterbury, Dover, and Deal, where they stayed with Elizabeth Carter .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
74
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Elizabeth Carter posthumously and anonymously published the first volume by CT to see the light: Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
29 (1770): 478
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Elizabeth Carter published Essays on Various Subjects by CT , posthumously, as by the author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
33 (1772): 259

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